Hints and tips:
...The US’s Environmental Protection Agency is expected to finalise legally enforceable standards for PFAS in drinking water this year, and 10 states have legally enforceable standards....
...In the afternoon, Odey tended to disappear for a lengthy lunch at one of his favourite Mayfair haunts: Scott’s, Corrigan’s or Le Gavroche....
...According to the IMF, almost 10 per cent — $850bn — of US life insurance assets were owned or managed by private equity firms by the end of 2021....
...Many health experts argue that a growing reliance on emergency contraception as opposed to more standard methods, particularly among some young people, should be countered via increased education, outreach...
...We could rate this comparatively, or we could hold the NFL to a higher standard,” she said....
...Mainstream economics notoriously confuses wellbeing and quality of life with the more quantitative measure of living standards....
...I commissioned a home energy survey from the Brighton & Hove Energy Services Co-operative (BHESCo), strapline “clean energy, for people not for profit”....
...He said that this factor — combined with the Everyman’s lesser reliance on blockbusters — explained why it was “outperforming the market”....
...But such a comparison is only useful in telling us the source of Scott’s billions, and maybe in helping understand just what a miraculous anomaly she is. Scott doesn’t donate or endow, she gives....
...Investors pile into insurance Investors are buying record amounts of insurance contracts to protect themselves from a sell-off that has wiped trillions of dollars off the value of US stocks this year....
...“It’s not the number one thing in my life. Frankly, I think my family’s the number one thing in my life. No, well, actually, above that is the good Lord himself.”...
...Increasing allocations by long-term investors such as insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds and development finance institutions would fuel future growth....
...He was a co-founder of the Freedom Caucus, a group of young hardliners who made life miserable for John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the House....
...To be sure, we would probably all be better off if there were less self-insurance for bad times and a greater reliance on a robust and reliable public safety net....
...For households, it’ll come down to wage settlements vs inflation....
...Scott DiMaggio, co-head of fixed income at AllianceBernstein, points out that the curve is also under the influence of rabid demand from international investors who, even after the cost of currency hedging...
...The Fed had provided a new lease of life to the market, with investors drawn to the potential for higher returns in an otherwise low-yielding world....
...Also, alongside the trauma of the pandemic, people have glimpsed other possibilities that raise questions of quality of life above those of consumption alone, or its euphemism, ‘standards of living’....
...Main reports Monday Pearson; Direct Line Insurance Tuesday Continental; Standard Life Aberdeen; M&G; ITV; TP ICAP Wednesday Franco Nevada; Oracle; Adidas; Lukoil; Cathay Pacific Airways; Pirelli; Legal...
...Covéa/Scor: insurance M&A gets messy Insurers are meant to be boring and reliable....
...Keith Skeoch, the departing chief executive of Standard Life Aberdeen, the UK’s largest asset manager, is set to be named interim chairman of Britain’s audit watchdog....
...No vaguely affordable US public healthcare coverage could work without compulsory insurance....
...The platform’s two founders were sentenced to life in prison....
...(FT) Amsterdam and the art of easing Alev Scott chronicles her first Real-Life Cultural Experience in months, after Dutch restaurants, bars and museums reopened....
...But the turmoil inflicted by Covid-19 has unsettled even the gold standard of quant funds....
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